This movie is certainly not as awful as the 2nd but merely just okay. The first half of this movie was terrible humor with Malkovich's and Jeong's characters. Also, I couldn't stop laughing at all of Bay's injections of his own political agenda.

@Rock Sexton
It's not surprising, many film makers use stock footage in their movies. I'm pretty sure its happened many times. At least he used one from his own movie.

is this stock footage?i thought that artbeats has stockfootage.

the only way Bay can do this is becaus he is always doing the same type of car action and because he is using always similar locations.some are saying that this is done to keep the budget down . but how is this my problem? i am paying a ticket. i am paying money.

the only way Bay can do this is becaus he is always doing the same type of car action and because he is using always similar locations.

Well from an article I read they do this type of stuff to save money because they need a certain shot. I think the articles also said Bay did this in the first transformers movie when he reused a scene of an aircraft carrier. Here's a link. http://www.slashfilm.com/transformer...ed-the-island/

I really don't care since its basically a few seconds of the movie and I wouldn't have noticed if its not pointed out.

Now when people complain to me about Bayformers it sounds like a "Nice guy" trying to convince his female crush she shouldn't be with her "jerk" boyfriend: "Hey, did you know he uses STOCK FOOTAGE! And he doesn't even give Ironhide dying the appropriate emotional impact! An my Optimus would never say "my bad"! How can you let someone treat you like that!! I know you say he's exciting and "fun" but he doesn't treat you right. Come be with me my love, I'll give you all the things you need like characterization and storylines and emotional crescendos and all that stuff".

^Optimus Prime
I don't really get what your saying. Movies can be exciting and fun with good characterizations, storylines, and emotional crescendos. They can all exist in the same movie, they are not mutually exclusive.